by James Coglan

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I had to rename a bunch of variables in my current project and I wanted to know
which files needed adjusting. Problem is, I’m on Windows, and searching for
anything in Windows blows really hard. Even Google Desktop with the
any-text-file-indexer wasn’t as helpful as I’d like. So, I wrote this tiny tiny
plugin that gives you a command line search for your Rails project.

ruby script/plugin install
http://svn.jcoglan.com/grape/trunk/grape

Because rake + grep = grape. I know, I’m brilliant, I know. Now I can
regexp-search my whole Rails project from the command line:

rake grape q="chunky bacon"

It’s case-insensitive by default, but you can change that by tacking cs= at
the end. Grape will then tell you how many files match, and list them with line
numbers of matching lines. It searches Ruby files, ®HTML, ®XML, RJS and
JavaScript files, CSS, ERB, rakefiles, YAML, SQL, plain text, (f)cgi and
htaccess. If I’ve left anything off the list don’t hesitate to tell me.

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If you’ve enjoyed this article, you might enjoy my recently published book
JavaScript Testing Recipes. It’s
full of simple techniques for writing modular, maintainable JavaScript apps
in the browser and on the server.